I think it must be birthday party season. I know that's not possible, but it sure seems like it runs in cycles. Cannon and Mia have each had two parties in the last two weeks and they each have a party to attend this weekend as well - at the same time - in opposite directions. I will be selling my lovely wares at the St. John's Bizarre Bazaar in the St John's neighborhood here in Portland this Saturday so their daddy gets to navigate that situation! Whew. hehe.
We've decided that this year, our gift of choice is the tutu. Every one that we've made so far has turned out very different. I've altered the colors and style on each one. This tutu was for a very special friend of Cannon's for her fourth birthday. I hope she gets a lot of happy twirling time out of it.
To get this effect, I used two yards of a coral pink tulle. The tulle comes folded in half lengthwise on the bolt and I folded in in half a second time, but I folded each selvage edge up to the fold line and stitched the four layers with the longest straight stitch two times, 1/4 inch apart creating two long pockets and leaving about 6" of extra string at the end.
I then filled each one with orange rose petals and stitched it closed with one normal straight stitch. Then I gathered the tulle by pulling the bobbin threads and tying them off at the desired amount of gather. I measured how far my elastic length that I had chosen was in its most stretched state. I attached the waistband elastic with a zigzag top stitch about 1/2" from the edge of the tulle in between the original straight stitching leaving the rough selvedge edge to make a puffy edge.
I usually serge the elastic on and turn and top stitch it, but I wanted to try this fun edge this time and I like how it turned out. Enjoy!
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